AI and Aging - Jake Zaslav — Engaging reader – AI, Accessibility, and Intergenerational Design

This talk tells the story of the Engaging Reader (engagingreader.com), an accessibility app that uses AI to make everyday reading tasks more accessible, developed by an intergenerational team of students and older community members. Through this case study, I hope to demonstrate how AI can be used to empower intergenerational initiatives and position older community members as co-designers of technologies that shape their daily lives.

About the AI and Aging event series

As AI becomes an ever-present part of our lives and media systems we are left with questions on how we age alongside this technology. A history of critical gerontechnology tells us of the roles of ageism within technology, and this working group examines how similar arguments apply (or differ) to emerging AI tools. The goal is to dispel myths and presuppositions to foster interdisciplinary research that is more than a bringing together of disciplines. Together these rapid research talks provide space to explore how aging and AI intersect in various domains so we can create meaningful research responses.

This event is hybrid, in-person at engAGE Centre for Research on Aging and online. Please email Eric and engage@concordia.ca if you like the online meeting link.